Process of making various protein isolates and concentrates.

1. PROCESS OF MAKING PROTEIN
ISOLATES AND CONCENTRATES
BY
ABHISHEK R INDURKAR

2. INTRODUCTION
• Proteins are nitrogen-containing compounds made of up amino acids
unit. They are the major structural component of muscles and other tissues
in the body.
• Proteins are available in different varieties of dietary sources including
animals, plants origin, and from highly marketed spot supplement
industry.
• Typically, all dietary animal proteins (e.g. eggs, milk, meat, fish and
poultry) are considered complete protein because they contain all essential
amino acids.
• Proteins from vegetable sources (such as legumes, nuts and soy) are
incomplete proteins since they are lacking one or two essential amino
acids.

3. PROTEIN ISOLATES
• Isolate are the most refined form of protein products containing the greatest
concentration of protein but unlike flour and concentrates contains no dietary
fibre. Isolates originated from United State around 1950s .
• They are very digestible and easily incorporated into different food products.
• Protein isolates are nowadays believed to have played a major role in the
development of new class of formulated foods. It is high concentration of
protein with the advantage of colour, flavour and functional properties make it
an ideal raw ingredient for used in beverages, infant foods and children milk
food, textured protein products and certain types of specialty foods.
• Protein isolates have been developed from a variety of legumes among which
are soy bean, peanut, canola, cashew nut, almonds, sesame, pinto and navy
beans

4. • Protein isolate from different plant and animal
sources
• Proteins that are utilised in food processing are of
various origins, and can roughly be classified into
animal proteins (gelatins), vegetable proteins (e.g.
peanut protein, soy protein, wheat proteins, Almond
protein, canola meal protein etc.), and animal
derived protein (e.g. milk proteins).

5. PROTEIN CONCENTRATES
• Protein concentrates are those which contain some level of
carbohydrates
• Its content is less as compared to Isolates
• Many concentrates are 80% protein, which means on a dry
basis, 80% of the total weight is protein
• Protein concentrate, a human or animal dietary supplement that has
a very high protein content and is extracted or prepared from
vegetable or animal matter. The most common of such substances
are leaf protein concentrate (LPC) and fish protein concentrate (FPC).

6. • LPC is prepared by grinding young leaves to a pulp, pressing the paste, then
isolating a liquid fraction containing protein by filter or centrifuge. Herbaceous
plants and legumes, such as clover and lucerne, produce higher yields of protein
concentrate than perennial grasses. The protein quality of some LPCs has been
found to approach that of the soybean, the most protein-rich of the oilseeds; all
LPCs require supplements, however, because they are deficient in two of the
nutritionally essential amino acids, lysine and methionine.
• FPC, processed directly from fish, is most commonly incorporated in cereal or
wheat-based foods as a source of lysine. FPC flour is made by grinding the fish and
adding to it an isopropanol solvent, which separates liquids and solids; the solid
material is then extracted by centrifuge, and the process may be repeated several
times. After the final centrifuging, the solid material is dried and ground.

7. EXTRACTION METHODS
• Isoelectric precipitation: - The isoelectric point (pI) of a protein is the pH
where the net charge on the protein is zero. Proteins tend to aggregate and
precipitate at their pI because there is no electrostatic repulsion keeping them
apart. Proteins have different isoelectric point because of their different amino
acid sequence, and therefore, they can be separated by adjusting the pH of a
solution. When the pH is adjusted to the isoelectric point of a particular protein
it precipitates leaving the other protein in the solution.
• A more recent study on isoelectric precipitation of soya protein confirmed
that both extraction condition and the type of acid used for isoelectric
precipitation had little effect. However, it was found that an isoelectric
point of around pH 4.2 leads to high proportion of protein precipitated
out.

8. • Alkaline extraction: It was found that alkaline reagents
were more effective in extraction of protein from food
legumes. However, several changes such as destruction
of lysine, formation of lysine-alanine, racemisation may
occur during alkali extraction and reduce the protein
quality. Hence, a better technology to produce protein
isolate and concentrate with maximum yield and
minimum or no anti-nutritional factors need to be
developed.

9. • Ultrafiltration method: - This is a potential membrane processing for extraction
of protein, a solution of protein is placed in a cell containing a semi-permeable
membrane, and pressure is applied. Small molecules pass through the
membrane, whereas the larger ones remain in the solution. The semi-
permeable membranes with cut-off points of between 500 and 300,000 are
mostly available. The extraction of soy protein isolate by this method was first
reported over twenty years ago.
• The Ultrafiltration system provides a commercially feasible alternative to
the existing isoelectric precipitation method of soya beans production.
Subsequently, many manufacturers were believed to have implemented
the ultrafiltration process for soya isolate.
• Ultrafiltration can also be used to concentrate protein solution and can be
used in laboratory and commercial scale

10. EXAMPLES
• a Whey protein isolates (WPI)
• Whey is the liquid by-product of cheese which can further be processed into
a spray dried products like instance whey protein concentrates (WPC),
whey protein isolate (WPI) or whey protein hydrolysate (WPH).
• Whey isolates have had their base component (water) removed and are
generally considered almost lactose and cholesterol free — they are
typically at least 90% protein.
• Whey protein isolates can be obtained by 2 methods:
1) Ion Exchange method
2) Membrane filtration method

12. FISH PROTEIN ISOLATES (FPI)
• Fish protein isolate is a protein concentrate which is prepared from fish muscle without
retaining the original shape of the muscle. It is not generally consumed directly, but used as
raw material for production of other value added products.
• Fish protein isolate does not retain the original shape of muscle, and is normally utilized as
ingredient for the production of value added products. It is still a good source of protein for the
production of ready to eat fish products.
• The overall processes involved are simple. The proteins of the muscle tissue are first
solubilised. The solubilisation can be accomplished by addition water with alkali added to
approximately pH 10.5 or higher, or with acid added to about pH 3.5 or lower. It is usually
necessary to choose the pH at which the consistency of the solution decreases to a value that
allows the removal of undesirable material.
• The mixture is then centrifuged, and due to density differences the oil rises to the top and can
then be removed. Other insoluble impurities such as bone or skin are also sedimented at this
stage.
• The muscle protein are then precipitated and collected by a process such as centrifugation.

14. PEANUT PROTEIN ISOLATES
(PPIS)
• Peanut (Arachis hypogeae L.) is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the
suborder papillonacea of the order Leguminosea. It contains 26-29% protein with
good nutritional quality. Peanut proteins are used for their functional properties
(emulsification, forming) or for their nutritional properties in different food
products. They are also used for human nutrition in developing countries to
supplement cereals, beverages and skim milk.
• Peanut protein isolate can be prepared from the defatted peanut cake or
powdered by macerating with high salt phosphate buffer (20mM Na2HPO4,
2mM KH2PO4, 5.4 mM KCl, 1M NaCl, pH 7.4), centrifuging and then
supplementing the supernatant with (NH4)2SO4 to 90% saturation.
• After centrifuging the pellet can be dialyse against distilled water overnight at
4oC and freeze-dried.

15. SOY PROTEIN ISOLATES (SPIS)
• Soy protein isolate is a common isolate. It has high protein content of about
90%. It is made of defatted soy meal by removing most of the fat and
carbohydrates.
• A soybean is crushed into oil and defatted meal. The meal is usually used as
animal feed, while smaller amount is further processed into food ingredients
including soy flour, protein concentrate, protein isolates and textured protein.
• Soy protein isolate is usually combined with other food ingredients such as
vitamins, minerals and flavour in preparation of soy protein shake powder.
• The production of soy protein isolate involve solubilising the protein and
carbohydrate at neutral or alkaline pH and the recovery of the solubilised
protein, separation and optionally washing and neutralization before drying.

16. • Three steps involved in the processing of soy protein isolates (SPI) are
(1) The soy flakes are slurried with water under alkaline conditions (pH 6.8-10
at 27-66oC using sodium hydroxide and other alkaline substances approved
for food used) so that the protein and the oligosaccharides can dissolve into
the solution. The protein solution is then separated from the insoluble residue
by centrifugation,
(2) The supernatant containing the protein and sugars is then acidified to
isoelectric pH 4.5 ( where the solubility of proteins is minimal), using
hydrochloric acid (HCl). This leads to the precipitation of protein as curd,
(3) The solubility of the precipitated protein is restored by neutralizing to
alkaline pH of 6.5-7.0 after re-diluting with fresh water or spray dried in its
acidic form and packed in multilayer paper bags.

18. SOY PROTEIN CONCENTRATES
• Soy protein is made from dehulled, defatted soybean meal. The
concentration of protein is achieved by removing most of the
soluble non-protein compounds. These compounds are mainly
soluble carbohydrates and some nitrogenous substances and
minerals.
• There are three methods to produce soy protein concentrate.
1) Aqueous alcohol wash process
2) Acid wash process
3) Water wash process with heat denaturation

19. AQUEOUS ALCOHOL WASH
PROCESS
• With this process the sugars are dissolved with
alcohols (methanol, ethanol or isopropyl alcohol) in a
batch or a continuous process. These alcohols do
not dissolve the soy proteins. Defatted soy flakes are
used as raw material. After the extraction of the
sugars, the alcohol is recovered and re-used. This
recovery is accomplished by evaporation and
rectification in a distillation column. The final flakes
are dried with hot air and milled.

20. • Acid-wash process
The soybean protein becomes insoluble in water when the pH is adjusted to
4.2. With this low pH, it is possible to dissolve the sugars without the use of
special solvents. This process is a lot safer due to the absence of flammable
solvents. On the other hand, it is more difficult to remove the water from the soy
protein. Most of the water is removed with rotary vacuum filters or centrifuges.
The obtained solids wet milled and spray dried.
• Water extraction process with heat denaturation
With this process, the soy proteins of defatted soy meal are first rendered
insoluble by thermal denaturation. The meal is heat treated and then extracted
with hot water to remove the sugars. The process is similar to the acid-wash
process.

22. WHEY PROTEIN
CONCENTRATES
• Whey Protein Concentrate is the substance
obtained by the removal of sufficient nonprotein
constituents from pasteurized whey so that the
finished dry product contains > 25% protein. WPC is
produced by physical separation techniques such as
precipitation, filtration or dialysis. The acidity of WPC
may be adjusted by the addition of safe and suitable
pH adjusting ingredients.

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